Death
Subtitle: An Essay on Finitude
Contributors: John Llewelyn (Translator)
Publisher: Athlone Press
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9780485114874
Subjects: Topics in philosophy; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Social Science; Death And Dying (Sociological Aspects); Speculative Philosophy; Philosophy; Sociology - General; Movements - Humanism; Death; Finite, The
Description: Plato's Phaedo, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Heidegger's Being and Time are three of the most profound meditations on variations of the idea that to practise philosophy is to practise how to die. Francoise Dastur's study traces how these variations are connected with each other and with the reflections of this idea to be found in the works of other ancient and modern philosophers - including Nietzsche, Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.

Professor Dastur also shows how this philosophical thanatology motivates or is motivated by experiences documented in psychoanalysis and in the anthropology of Western and Oriental religions and myths.